The School of Continuing Education | Brain Pickings has a post up with links and intros to one fairly traditional and four DIY online schools.
The DIY platforms are new: (un) classes whose logline is community powered learning, Skillsharing, another community sharing platform and Supercool School (which also has a blog) as well as School of Everything and their blog. For that matter, check in at BrainPickings form time to time.
The most traditional in approach is The University of the People which offers tuition-free access to two and four year degrees in Business and Computer Science, and a General Studies section, using a peer-to-peer format and 10-week terms. It is a non-profit approach that will use a sliding scale according to country of origin that does intend to apply for accreditation in the US in the future. Admissions are closed right now, they open every 2.5 weeks, but follow at Shai Reshef's blog (where he has a post on why a $10,000 degree is too high as in the future, a student from a wealthy country would pay about $4000 for a full degree when they reach 15,000 students). There are already schools in that range online.
Homeschoolers should know The University of the People has to certify that a student has received a high school diploma and that is because of the demands of accreditation, as stated in this video clip, which also looks at the technology and sharing side of the program that does not require bandwidth; all is text-based yet global. Study with people all over the world:
And their peer-to-peer grading approach which they use that has students do this themselves:
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skillshare
I was updating a recent post on decentralization. And I included a link to this animation via BrainPickings from SkillShare.
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Let's Start a Learning Revolution from Skillshare on Vimeo.
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Let's Start a Learning Revolution from Skillshare on Vimeo.
james altucher on alternatives to college
In Skip the Diploma: Eight Alternatives to College - DailyFinance, James Altucher again says don't go to college. He talks about the steep debt load so many young people are accumulating. Links to other Altucher posts are in the article.
open education links
Lots of links to free college software in a compilation at the NY Times today:
- An article An Open Mind about free, online courseware
- And another entitled How to Learn Something for Nothing
- Popular courses listed in What They're Watching
- Audit This or 12 Courses Worth a Click
An Open Mind, discusses the large number of independent learners online as well as educators working outside the box:
P2PU’s mission isn’t to develop a model and stick with it. It is to “experiment and iterate,” says Ms. Paharia, the former executive director of Creative Commons. She likes to talk about signals, a concept borrowed from economics. “Having a degree is a signal,” she says. “It’s a signal to employers that you’ve passed a certain bar.” Here’s the radical part: Ms. Paharia doesn’t think degrees are necessary. P2PU is working to come up with alternative signals that indicate to potential employers that an individual is a good thinker and has the skills he or she claims to have — maybe a written report or an online portfolio.
“We live in a new society,” Ms. Paharia says. “People are mobile. We have the Internet. We don’t necessarily need to work within the confines of what defines a traditional education.”
David Wiley, associate professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University, is an adviser to P2PU. For the past several years, he has been referring to “the disaggregation of higher education,” the breaking apart of university functions.
funding college idea
Britain considers waiving tuition for students who live at home while attending college.
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